Sparsetooth dogfish
The sparsetooth dogfish (Scymnodalatias oligodon) is a very rare sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, the holotype of which was taken in the subtropical southeast Pacific at a depth of up to 200 m. Its biology is unknown.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Somniosidae |
| Genus: | Scymnodalatias |
| Species: | S. oligodon |
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| Scymnodalatias oligodon Kukuev & Konovalenko, 1988 | |
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References
- Leandro, L. (SSG South America Regional Workshop, June 2003). 2004. Scymnodalatias oligodon. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T44570A10921046. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T44570A10921046.en. Downloaded on 19 October 2017.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Scymnodalatias oligodon" in FishBase. July 2006 version.
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